book Archive
30 Nov 2022
Book Review: The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964 to 1976
Author: Edoardo Genzolini Schiffer Publishing 2022, 306 pp. $59.99 (and well worth it) In the third decade of the 21st century, it’s challenging to come up with a book that […]
21 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Complete as Can Be It’s not as if Rodriguez is any kind of a newcomer to the Grateful Dead and their work. “I’ve been researching the […]
20 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Tale of the Tapes Rodriguez made sure to maintain an open mind while researching for the book, but he admits that he began with at least […]
19 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 1 of 3)
After All is Said and Done: Mark Rodriguez and Taping the Grateful Dead Deadheads didn’t invent audience recording of concerts. As Clinton Heylin chronicles in his exhaustive 1994 book, Bootleg: […]
11 Jul 2022
Bay Area Book Tour This Week
The Disturbing the Peace book tour is coming to the Bay Area this week. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it: Three events in two days. Come join the fun. Signed […]
10 Jun 2022
Book Review: Wicked Game
San Francisco and the Bay Area have long been fertile creative ground. Even confining the discussion to music, there’s been a staggering volume of important music coming out of the […]
03 Jun 2022
The Residents: The Eyes Have It (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… That meeting in late 2020 was the first time Tanner and Flynn had met, but the groundwork for the project was already laid. “Since we started […]
02 Jun 2022
The Residents: The Eyes Have It (Part One)
Inscrutable art/music collective celebrates its 50th anniversary with the first in a series of books chronicling its history Surveying the landscape of 20th and 21st century music, one is unlikely […]
12 Apr 2022
BOOK EVENT! Thursday 4/14 @ 7pm EDT
Readers of this online mag are unlikely to have escaped the news that I have, indeed, written and published my second book. Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the rise […]
11 Feb 2022
Book Event! Me! In Person, Even!
My latest book, Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave, gets its official release this week (of course you can already order it direct from HoZac […]